Liverpool 4-0 LASK: Salah, Diaz and Gakpo score to seal comfortable win

Liverpool have reached the last 16 of the Europa League as group winners with victory over LASK at Anfield.

Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo both struck in the space of three first-half minutes before Mohamed Salah's penalty after the break and Gakpo's second late on in a straightforward win.

Toulouse's failure to beat Union St-Gilloise ensures Liverpool cannot be caught at the top of Group E.

The Reds go through to the knockouts and avoid February's play-off round.

Liverpool had total control inside 15 minutes following a quickfire double.

First, Diaz sprayed a ball wide to Joe Gomez before running around the back of the defence into the area to meet the right-back's cross and steer his header into the net.

Shortly after, a well-worked move between Diaz, Salah and Gakpo around the LASK box was finished from close range by the Dutchman.

Liverpool missed several first-half chances to put the game to bed, but had to wait until LASK keeper Tobias Lawal felled Gakpo in the area on 48 minutes, allowing Salah to slam in the third, with Gakpo adding a fourth following Trent Alexander-Arnold's clever pass.

Match Events

12' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 LASK Linz (Luis Díaz)

15' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 LASK Linz (Cody Gakpo)

31' CLOSE! Tsimikas hits the post

51' Penalty Goal! Liverpool 3-0 LASK Linz (Salah)

92' GOAL! Liverpool 4-0 LASK Linz (Cody Gakpo)

Line-ups

Liverpool XI: W. Endo, Salah, Joe Gomez, Tsimikas, Kelleher, Konate, Cody Gakpo, Luis Díaz, Gravenberch, Elliott, Jarell Quansah

Subs: Matip, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold, Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Darwin Núñez, Marcelo Pitaluga, Curtis Jones, Conor Bradley, Kaide Gordon, Luke Chambers, Ben Doak

LASK Linz XI: R. Zulj, Philipp Ziereis, Filip Stojkovic, Sascha Horvath, Ivan Ljubic, Andrés Andrade, Tobias Lawal, George Bello, Maksym Taloverov, Marin Ljubicic, Moses Usor

Subs: Jörg Siebenhandl, Thomas Goiginger, Jovicic, Rene Renner, Felix Luckeneder, Husein Balic, Moussa Koné, Florian Flecker, Ebrima Darboe, Elias Havel, Ibrahim Mustapha, Sanoussy Ba